John Delcos enters his third season covering the Mets for The Journal News after eight seasons on the Yankees beat. Prior to coming to New York, John covered the Baltimore Orioles, Cleveland Browns and Cleveland Indians.

Gil: There is now. Looks like Mota. Rough night for Maine. He leaves with the lead, but 117 pitches in five innings is way too many. He struck out eight and walked three, which ran up the count some, but mostly he was running deed counts all night. On the positive side, he didn’t give up six runs again. On the other hand, he could have if it weren’t the Pirates.-JD

LGMG: I COMLETELY agree with you about the Marlins announcers. I hate their homering. Same with the Nationals’ play-by-play man, Bob Carpenter.
The Bucs’ ones are bad for another reason – they’re about as animated as a pair of house plants. The Phils? Don’t have too many feelings about them, except, like you, I enjoy Harry Kalas’s voice.
Most times now, I watch Extra Innings on mute and have the Mets radio team on, on mlb.com.
I like the A’s TV team and the Dodgers TV team (hard to beat Vin Scully having a friendly, one-on-one conversation with you).
I used to love last year’s D-Backs’ team of Thom Brennaman and Mark Grace – and they even had Joe Garagiola doing color for some games.
The Cubs’ guys – Pat Hughes and Bob Brenly – are pretty good, while the Giants’ Mike Krukow and Duane Kuiper are blatant Barry Bonds sycophants.
The Cardinals? I refuse to listen to one syllable, after last year.
The Astros’ Bill Brown has an annoying, over-enunciating, authoritative tone, like the D-Rays’ Dewayne Staats.
The Braves?
Chip Caray is a team brown-nosing Jim Carrey look alike who I’ll never listen to again.
The irony?
I never hear the Padres announcers, though I’m in San Diego, because they don’t make their channel available here, on DirecTV, because it’s owned by a competitor, Cox Cable.

I forgot Carpenter. I can understand why there are no National fans. He is really horrible. The White Sox guys are outrageous too.
But you are right about Scully. For the rest of the world Scully announces solo and has more info about every player then any whole team if announcers has.
The Pirate announcers are bored mainly because they’ve had to announce the Pirates for a long time. They’ve been there since the Pirates were good so they have to be forgiven for sounding dead.
MLB doesn’t cover the Padres either. When the Mets were in SD I had the Mets crew the whole time.
The Yankee announcers suck also. They are the most boring guys in the world. Even Leiter, who has a good sense of humor has been trained to put us to sleep.
And Joe &^ck in StLouis, I can’t listen to him either.

If you told me in spring training that Jorge Sosa would at one point be the team’s best starter and then at another point be the team’s best reliever I woulda laughed in your face. Probably the most unlikely scenario ever.

LGMG: Joe Buck is a punk.
How Fox allows him to cover Cardinals’ games without sensing any conflict of interest defies reason. He’s a second-generation Cardinals announcer, for goodness sake! (Though I loved listening to Jack Buck in the ‘90s on CBS’s national games…”I don’t believe…what I just saw!”)
I can’t stand the Yankees’ team.
(Though I have to admit, in my childhood, when not listening to the Mets, I loved hearing The Scooter.)

Is it possible that if Endy can return before 1 Sep that Omar would DFA Green? I can’t see them ridding Anderson or Easley. Gotay is the only sub at SS, Milledge is earning more time and we need 2 catchers?

The Scooter was oure entertainment. Fox just sucks. Nothing else to say I disagree with you about Grace because one game in Arizona he was singing “Beat the Mets, Beat the Mets”, and it was too irritating, but he is usually funny and he knows a lot.

How long until the “DFA!” “DFA!” chants at Shea start, after Shawn Green keeps making outs?
What a total waste of an at-bat.
A one-pitch flail back to the mound.
You know Alou has almost caught Green in the RBI totals?
DiFelice also didn’t help, having a one-pitch at-bat, running Grabow’s total pitch count for the inning to a whopping five.

Very smart move, inserting Lasto in RF for speed and defense. But Green at first? Last time Willie did that, I almost rushed the field from my third base field box at Dodger Stadium after he dropped Billy wagner’s pickoff throw.

The Bucco boys said Delgado left because he got hurt on the foul ball he didn’t catch along the wall a few innings ago.
Pirate fans are well versed in throwing their hands to their heads in disgust. But they don’t boo. They just say “Thank God its Football season”.